Day 253 – Definitive answers…
A friend and I were talking about the notion of definitive answers, and pain and suffering in this world.
My friend:
I don’t think I have found a definitive answer to anything, and I’m not sure there is a definitive answer to anything. But to attempt to answer, I would say that both pain and suffering are evolutionary survival mechanisms. And whether there is more bad than good in the world is totally subjective.
My response:
For a human to function, one must have definitive answers to work with on some level. Deciding to work. Deciding to brush teeth. Deciding to drink or take drugs. Deciding to get married.
All of these actions emerge from a person who has come to some form of conclusion and thereby answer in life, and their subscription to that answer is in their outward expression or action in which they live their life.
There are answers to most things related to human civilisation. It just might not be the answer you wish to hear or believe. If there weren’t any answers to questions, we would have ultimate chaos.
Law and order emerge from answered questions. You could argue that the answers are a general consensus, but one still has answers.
Is killing a person for taking your job okay?
Is raping a woman who gave you the ‘come-on’ okay?
Is stealing from a convenient store because the shop owner was rude to you okay?
We have definitive answers to these questions.
Although it’s perhaps the easiest method to turn every philosophical debate into moral relativity or subjectivity…to lean on the argument of relativity when measuring the bad and good in this world, isn’t really being sincere to our clear sense of what is just…
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